Filamena Young ([info]filamena) wrote,
@ 2009-09-14 21:14:00
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Current location:The living room
Current mood: determined
Current music:Rachel Maddow
Entry tags:empowerment, feminism, geeky

An Open Letter to Ms. Fisher
Common geeks, we can seriously do better than this.

Here's a blog post by Carrie Fisher in response to a bit of internet vitrol she was victim too. I normally feel like 'never ever respond to that crap.' But in this case, Fisher was right to do so and showed grace and humor while doing it.

So, I wrote her an open letter on my other blog. You can read it here. If your a geek, a human being, and you have some time to kill I think you should write her a letter as well. Oh, and post a picture with it. It's really really empowering.




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[info]brigidsblest
2009-09-15 03:41 am UTC (link)
Awesome letter!

(Totally OT: Eeee! Geist shirt! *geeks out*)

P.S. Edit: "A month ago?" Was that GenCon? Did I miss you at GenCon?

Edited at 2009-09-15 03:42 am UTC

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[info]machineiv
2009-09-15 03:43 am UTC (link)
I believe you were RIGHT behind us, right? Maybe a seat to the left?

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[info]brigidsblest
2009-09-15 03:46 am UTC (link)
Probably. I think this is a case of not connecting LJ names with real people names, dammit...

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[info]machineiv
2009-09-15 03:47 am UTC (link)
Yep. You were there with your daughter, who was quite clever.

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[info]brigidsblest
2009-09-15 04:08 am UTC (link)
Oops, no. I went with my husband, but he didn't attend the ENnies with me (which is where the pic looked like it was taken).

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[info]machineiv
2009-09-15 04:13 am UTC (link)
Yeah. In fact, here's the source picture:

http://www.ennie-awards.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ENnies2009-35.JPG

Here's the lot of the pictures. There's quite a few with the WW crowd: http://www.ennie-awards.com/blog/?page_id=68

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[info]brigidsblest
2009-09-15 04:31 am UTC (link)
Ahhh. Nope, you were further down than me. I'm here, the one in purple:

http://www.ennie-awards.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ENnies2009-41.JPG

And here, the closest one in the foreground, looking away from the camera:

http://www.ennie-awards.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ENnies2009-21.JPG

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[info]machineiv
2009-09-15 04:32 am UTC (link)
Snap.

There we go.

Well, it's a pleasure having almost kind of sort of met you in person but not recalled because of the swarm of crap going on!

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[info]brigidsblest
2009-09-15 04:33 am UTC (link)
Heh, ditto. Drat, so I did miss you guys. Oh well. Maybe next year!

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[info]filamena
2009-09-15 03:49 am UTC (link)
That's exactly what it was. We shook hands and exchanged names but there was a LOT going on that night so I'm not surprised if you don't remember.

That said, hi! We sort of met! How are you?

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